A influência de fatores extrínsecos no desenvolvimento infantil

Abstract

Child development is the result of the interaction between the biological characteristics of the child, genetic and environmental factors. Extrinsic and intrinsic factors can influence child development, such as nutritional status, environmental, family stimulation, the cultural pattern, educational and socioeconomic status of the family. Problems like these are verycommon in the area covered by the Family Health Team where I operate in the city of Congonhas, because the population has low socioeconomic and cultural conditions being recurring, families with many children, illiteracy, alcohol abuse and other drugs, teenage pregnancy, multiparous. This study aimed to identify literature on the extrinsic factors that influence child development and able to propose possible actions to minimize such delays. To achieve the objective of a literature review on child development in primary health care and its external influencing factors was performed. The suggestions of the intervention plan basedon the difficulties presented to conduct the evaluation and development of ways to mitigate risk situations that predisposes children to delays. Therefore, it is expected that this study assist health professionals to identify the external factors that undermine the expected development in children, and also to give grants to them to act more effectively in children's psychomotor tracking.